Personality of Children with Emotional Disorders: A Psychodynamic Study.

The promotion of healthy child development has become a major focus of world attention over the last three decades. However, children are often afflicted by emotional disorders in the recent years. These are exhibited by undue thoughts and disrupted behaviors as opposed to the cultural expectations. The present study is aimed to find out the comparison among children with Externalizing/lnternalizing disorder and their Peer Control with respect to the nature and degree of underlying dynamics of personality. The sample include children with externalizing disorder, internalizing disorder and peer control. Each group consists of 15 participants. On each of the groups, a semi structured socio-demographic proforma, consent letters by parents and clinical data sheet were administered to the children. The criterion for clarification of externalizing and internalizing disorder group was assessed using the Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (Naglieri etai., 1979) and followed by the CAT-Human Version (Beliak & Beliak, 1965). The findings indicated that, externalizing children have poor impulse control and intense need for autonomy and power, internalizing children have intense need for affiliation and moral values and take decision on the basis of ethical judgments and normal peer control group have more balanced ego as compared to the other two clinical groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]